TimeLine Notebook

Events Fulfilled for a Specific Purpose

Again,
we could pack this tour stop with lots of information...
but let's summarize points here simply and make
reference to useful information elsewhere within
the WindowView.

To describe
one aspect of the Messiah's role in history might call for a bit
of over simplifying... but only to the end of making an illustrative
point — yet there is no compromising the core relevance here...
that said, here's a bit of illustration:

From Abraham
forward there has been a Divine story line conveying a promise of
redemption — ultimately a process of saving those who adopt faith
for something that is further along the time line. Later, when Israel
(as a Jewish people and as a Nation under the LORD's direction) left
Egypt, there was a period when the Nation failed God's will — they
came up short of the Lord's expectations. Ultimately these were the
people that were to guide all peoples (the nations, Gentiles) out
of bondage (from the world to the spiritual). The Bible records many
instances where persons or the Nation Israel fell short — and thus
provide examples of sin.

Reflecting
on types of sin:

Individuals
''miss the mark,'' and do what is wrong (from Cain and Abel onward)

Corporate
/ national (Israel as a whole did not recognize... then did not
accept Messiah; this rejection is a corporate sin that in part
due to the ignorance of Jews and Gentiles lead to Messiah's execution
— which was an anticipated event and is part of the larger biblical
story line leading to a final Promise and a solution to the sin
problem (e.g., see Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53 as accounts of Messianic
events before the fact))

Global
sin (global changes resulting in habitat alteration and loss of
renewable resources compromises the biblical mandate for stewardship
— this too is a sin on an entirely larger human dimension)

Messiah's
role in part is to take the heat, bear the burden, relieve humanity
of the sin problem... but under a primary requisite condition...
we need to recognize Him and accept His teachings... and thus from
a point in time leave the sin problem behind as we grow further in
relationship with God. His specific roles are:

Establish
a Relationship with God — and you
can reflect on this in the various
feature articles in the Jew
and Gentile area of WindowView.

To die for
a purpose — demonstrating death's limitation for those who believe
and abide in the relationship (the promises that are kept)

Proof that
His death was part of the fulfillment of promises and prophesies
stated long before His appearance on earth.

Promise
to come again in time future... see further down the time line.
[This point and other above are illustrated further in Messiah
Time Line]

While
academics debate the validity of portions
of Scripture or the historicity of the Messiah,
the biblical text from the very first pages
of the Hebrew Bible (i.e., Tanach) to the
pages of the New Covenant — foretold
by Jeremiah
(see this link or Evidences
page of Jew
and Gentile page to read relevant quotation
for the Book of Jeremiah) — all these
pages of Scripture tell a simple story of
sin and being saved from the consequences
of the sin nature that comes into every
human life.

Overcoming
individual, corporate, or even global sin requires a mediator, someone
to act in our place to relieve us of sin... that in a nut shell is
why Daniel's time line tells us that in the year 30 to 34 C.E. the
Messiah would be 'cut off' — that is to say suffer death. The good
news is someone overcomes our problem for us. Think about it! The
story is not all that complex and you are a personal beneficiary
to what the story has to convey.

Web (Internet): Occasionally
we find what appear as reliable, but formally unpublished, sources on the Internet. As such these entries remain to be fully confirmed. In many cases this information is found to agree with the remainder of the timeline and the published sources used here.

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